Donald Trump's Economy

[Synthaholic]

Trump's Economy means higher prices, shortages, recession, higher interest rates, stagflation, massive unemployment, and inflation.

Here comes the higher prices:

 

[Synthaholic]

Post examples of price hikes in this thread. There will be many.

 

[Missourian]

Oh noes! Not the Barbies!!!!

A 50¢ plastic doll that retails for $16.

Hashtag First World problems.

 

[Missourian]

In 1996 it only cost 35¢ to manufacture a Barbie Doll in China...Mattel sold them retail for $10.

From the LA Times...back when Democrats cared about American Workers...

"BEIJING — A Barbie doll is for sale at the Anaheim Toys “R” Us store in a bright cardboard-and-cellophane box labeled “Made in China.” The price is $9.99.

But how much will China make from the sale of the pert fashion doll marketed around the world by Mattel Inc. of El Segundo?


About 35 cents, according to executives in the Asian and American toy industry--mostly in wages paid to 11,000 young peasant women working in two factories across the border from Hong Kong in China’s Guangdong province."

Barbie and the World Economy

The box may say 'Made in China.' But tracing the doll's production path--from a Mideast oil field to an Anaheim toy store--raises questions about such labels and the relevance of trade numbers.

www.latimes.com

 

[Synthaholic]

Oh noes! Not the Barbies!!!!

It's like he is directly addressing you, dumbass.

 

[Missourian]

It's like he is directly addressing you, dumbass.

Translation from liberal to English:

"Yes, you've proven Mattel is fucking us... Yes, Mattel is charging you a 3,000% markup on the backs of Chinese peasants and at the expense of American workers.

But please ignore all of that, because we're a bunch of retards whose 'point' blew up in our faces."

 

[whitehall]

Americans are going to forego buying cheap Chinese toys while China faces famine unless they equalize the trade imbalance. Which one are American lefties rooting for?

 

[Synthaholic]

Translation from liberal to English:

"Yes, you've proven Mattel is fucking us... Yes, Mattel is charging you a 3,000% markup on the backs of Chinese peasants and at the expense of American workers.

But please ignore all of that, because we're a bunch of retards whose 'point' blew up in our faces."

Why is this retard trying to change the argument to what it costs Mattel to make?

Are Republicans now the Communists who tell businesses how much profit they are allowed to make?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Recession is coming, Washingtonfell.

 

[Synthaholic]

Trump's Economy

 

[Missourian]

Why is this retard trying to change the argument to what it costs Mattel to make?

Are Republicans now the Communists who tell businesses how much profit they are allowed to make?

The REAL question is "why aren't you???"

I'm not telling Mattel how much they can make. I'm telling YOU that you're defending a company that is making a 3,000% profit by outsourcing US jobs to China and sell you a 50¢ doll for $15.

If you're dumb enough to make that the hill you're dying on, I'm going to ecstatically let you commit that political suicide.

That you can't see you've effectively kicked your down ass makes it that much more delicious.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The REAL question is "why aren't you???"

I'm not telling Mattel how much they can make. I'm telling YOU that you're defending a company that is making a 3,000% profit by outsourcing US jobs to China and sell you a 50¢ doll for $15.

If you're dumb enough to make that the hill you're dying on, I'm going to ecstatically let you commit that political suicide.

That you can't see you've effectively kicked your down ass makes it that much more delicious.

We have it pretty good with Asian market products.

Trump wants to, and is, taking that away from hardworking Americans.

 

[Synthaholic]

 

[Synthaholic]

The REAL question is "why aren't you???"

I'm not telling Mattel how much they can make. I'm telling YOU that you're defending a company that is making a 3,000% profit by outsourcing US jobs to China and sell you a 50¢ doll for $15.

If you're dumb enough to make that the hill you're dying on, I'm going to ecstatically let you commit that political suicide.

That you can't see you've effectively kicked your down ass makes it that much more delicious.

Communist.

I bet you'd be fine with Donald Trump making a 3,000% profit on his meme coin. That's smart business, right? But Mattel? They should be restricted from making TOO MUCH PROFIT.

You clowns dig your own graves.

 

[Crepitus]

Trump's Economy means higher prices, shortages, recession, higher interest rates, stagflation, massive unemployment, and inflation.

Here comes the higher prices:

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We knew it was coming.

 

[Crepitus]

Post examples of price hikes in this thread. There will be many.

https://thehill.com/business/5288212-ford-raises-prices-on-three-models-amid-pressures-from-trump-tariffs/

 

[Crepitus]

Translation from liberal to English:

"Yes, you've proven Mattel is fucking us... Yes, Mattel is charging you a 3,000% markup on the backs of Chinese peasants and at the expense of American workers.

But please ignore all of that, because we're a bunch of retards whose 'point' blew up in our faces."